Exclusive: Outsourced guards, largely from ethnic minority backgrounds, barred from staff hub for mainly white employeesThe National Gallery’s security staff, of whom the vast majority are from ethnic minority backgrounds, are facing shocking segregation, a senior curator has claimed. Its outsourced guards are barred from the building’s high-quality “hub” – bright and airy recreation rooms that are available to the institution’s mainly white employees.
For hours we hobbled back, until we were close enough for him to place me down and run for helpRead more in the kindness of strangers seriesWe had heard there was an incredible waterfall somewhere deep in the Thai rainforest. Seeking it out almost killed me. In 2003 I was travelling solo through south-east Asia when I met Paul, an American with an easygoing, natural warmth.
